Quotes about Independence

Always remember, the essence of rebellion is the desire to be independent of God.

Anger, resentment, lust for revenge, even success through aggressive competitiveness, are corrosive of this good. To forgive is not just to be altruistic. It is the best form of self-interest. What dehumanizes you inexorably dehumanizes me. It gives people resilience, enabling them to survive and emerge still human despite all efforts to dehumanize them. When uhuru, or freedom and independence

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

If we live for people's approval, we will die by their rejection

the footprints of two of my own Goliaths: control and approval.

I grew up with absolutely no religion at all, and it was probably one of the best things that happened to me. I didn't have to unlearn anything.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...

Everyone needs to make his own choices. You need to mind your own business and not meddle in ours. So

Well, if nobody will have me... Mercy shrugged. I will die unmarried and my moral convictions will be to me like a husband. For I cannot change my nature, and for as long as I live I do not intend to marry someone who disagrees with me in this.

Every fat must stand upon its own bottom;